Wallpaper* City Guide Dubai

Your passport to global style, Wallpaper* City Guides present an insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Under slick Pantone covers, these pocket-sized travel bibles unearth the hippest nightlife, the buzziest hotels, the coolest retail, the most influential art galleries and cultural spaces, the best in local design and the contemporary architecture that defines a city.

Perfectly sized for travel, discreet and easy to use, so you don't feel like a tourist, these books are ideal for either extended breaks or business trips. They are rigorously researched, and curated by an extensive network of experts, from in-house editors to in-the-know local correspondents. The series now covers more than 100 dynamic destinations.

Wallpaper* City Guides are compiled by the magazine's travel experts, in-house editors and on-the-ground correspondents who are part of the local scene, providing under-the-radar insider recommendations.

"For discerning jet-setters... The small but perfectly formed guides have become iconic."—1843 (The Economist lifestyle magazine)

From the introduction:

"Stepford Wives perfect in parts, Dubai is a giant resort in a construction site. Love it or loathe it, it is a phenomenon that tempers its bad habits (it’s environmentally unsustainable, and fractured along class and racial lines) with an unshakeable conviction that everything can and should be changed. Dubai is all about upward mobility, and in a region currently in turmoil, that alone makes it a marvel..."

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